| cleavage |
breakage along well-defined planes
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| cleavage |
A mineral's tendency to break in a preferred plane in a crystal lattice.
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| cleavage |
The tendency of some minerals to split along smooth surfaces in definite directions.
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| cleavage |
Property of a mineral in which it breaks along smooth, definite surfaces.
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| cleavage fracture |
A splitting fracture of a metal (usually polycrystalline) across the grains (or crystals).
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